The first forum of agricultural workers was held with the participation of the Head of State Kasym-Jomart Tokayev. The collegial meeting was organized on the eve of the Day of workers of agriculture, food and processing industry. Chairman of the Board of Agrarian Credit Corporation JSC Almat Ashirbekov took part in the forum.

“The Head of State, speaking at the forum, noted that the volume of allocated funds for the agro-industrial complex has significantly increased. Now farmers receive soft loans for spring field and harvesting work directly at the rate of 5%. For the first time the volume of such lending exceeded half a trillion tenge, in the future it will be brought to one and a half trillion tenge. Our task is to effectively utilize the allocated funds and accelerate the work on financing farmers,” said Chairman of the Board Almat Ashirbekov.

The head of state dwelled on the timely financing of spring and fall field work. The Agrarian Credit Corporation began accepting applications from farmers in November this year for early financing of next year's sowing campaign.

“President Kasym-Jomart Kemelovich noted that timely financing of sowing and harvesting works is the guarantee of a rich harvest. It was also noted that a soft loan for spring field work will be issued from December this year, as a result of which agrarians will be able to timely purchase fuel and lubricants, spare parts, other necessary goods and services. For early financing of spring field and fall harvesting works in 2025, we started accepting applications from farmers on November 1 this year. We will open funding as early as December. This, in turn, will allow farmers to prepare for the sowing campaign earlier,” emphasized the Chairman of the Corporation.